If you were an eccentric billionaire with money and time to spend,what kind of exotic animal(s) would you own?I would have an entire tank full of giant isopods.
>>4886782dozens of foxes
i'd have many different varieties of snakes each in their own crazy custom bioactive enclosures (with cool isopods) like serpadesign i already have a pet snake, but it's my dream to give him the best enclosure he could possibly have
>>4886782alligators, alligator gars, and alligator snapping turtles
>>4886782Garden filled with Capybara
>>4886782I would teach a ton of crows to fly over the cities and give random things to random people.It'll be up to them to find out what it means.
I want a massive bobbit worm(or a colony if they can do that) that lives in a clear acrylic rock full of tunnels so you can watch it while it lurks. They actually have some luminescence so you could see them glowing through the fake rock, which makes up for the fact they barely move.Stock the tank above it with some pretty tropical fish for it to snack on, then set your desk up in front of it so when you have meetings with people you can do a supervillain thing where the suspense of watching the pretty little fish swimming around innocently above a predator that occasionally reaches up and devours one at random is projected onto the poor supplicant having to plead their case in your office.
>>4886867Based. I really hope you become an eccentric billionaire now.>>4886850:o
>>4886782I ate one of those in Taipei it's not super interesting and doesn't have a lot of meat
>>4886782They are pretty cool
I’ll take a blackthroat monitor with a gigantic enclosure. Or pretty much a tortoise island.
>>4886782Hey thats not fair i wanted to choose a bathynomus giganteus aquarium too!And well, since you already selected it i would choose a shoreline simulation aquarium with an army of soldier crabs
>>4886834This, I'd have an entire wing dedicated to massive climate controlled enclosures (like 20' x 10' each or something) that simulate an environment down to the plant species, clean up crew, and fucking wooden hardscapes, and house critters from said environment. Maybe even set some up to breed endangered species and help with conservation and rehabilitation.
>>4887042>simulate an environment down to the plant species, clean up crew, and fucking wooden hardscapesYou might be able to keep and breed several species of cool millipedes no one has figured out yet with that method. Best guess for some of them is that there’s a particular fungus or decomposed plant they’re dependent on.
>>4886782I would move to some cold rocky region. I'd play with them all day and cuddle with them at night. I'd buy deer and stuff for them to hunt
>>4886782I’d like to make some A2 beefmaster cattle, maybe mix in some guernsey genes. Also want to magically ignore bird flu laws to get particular chinese chicken genetics to see how they work with other breeds. And also some rare cave fish foundation stock of a few different species, possibly collected myself; that’s stupid dangerous though, and partly why they aren’t in the hobby yet. Also kinda want to see how well room-sized aquariums can function as heat sinks and aquascaping possibilites built around that concept.
>>4886782I'd rather just put the money into resurrection research so i can bring my cats and gecko back.But i'd buy an apartment complex for cats and one for leopard geckos
>>4886879Do make sure to constantly interrupt and call their attention to it, and make demented references throughout conversation (lest they forget) to show them you mean business
>>4886782Get this slut some clothes
>>4887501Mmmh thats the cutest option anon, very sweet :D>>4888652She is cute that way! Let her be!
>>4886879Dangerously based
A herd of Thomson's gazelle.
Let's adress the finnish kung fu panda debacle
I wanna invest my money into bringing back this motherfucker. Biggest gecko that ever was and will be, what would it be even like...
I'd just move to Florida and feed manatees. I could probably do that now, but I wouldn't have to work and could afford to feed more of them at once.
Build Biosphere 3.
>>4886834Bless you. I kinda want something similar.
>>4886782I would build a suit that is capable of withstanding high weights, bites, and scratches, and then I would keep tigers and other large cats. When they inevitably maul me I would be safe inside my exoskeleton designed for one thing only: to pet the big animals. I am willing to compromise to not have tiger and instead keep pumas and such if the suit design was deemed infeasible.As an aside in the realm of science fiction I'd like a similar suit to live under water, so I could pet all the fish without being eaten alive by sharks, or poisoned to death by all the weird shit. If we can have no science fiction I'd probably just keep animals that die really easily. Ferrets.
>>4886782Multiacre outdoor enclosure with gibbons and a couple orangutans in it, so I can return to monke whenever I want.
>>4886782I would have a saltwater aquarium integrated into the whole house, so that fish can swim from room to room. and house a mermaid inside, the only mermaid that exists in the world
>>4886782Forget about that. If I was a billionaire I would buy as much land as possible and make it completely fucking impossible for the wood industry to do anything there, then I would start a massive rewilding project.
>>4886879Devil
>>4886782I’d have like 10 100-gallons filled with nothing but jellyfish, comb jellies, crustaceans, annelids, basically anything that doesn’t have a backbone
>>4889563How big was that gecko?
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>>4889978i fully endorse and support bringing these back, i wanna walk it around like a doggo
>>4886782People. I would set up a predator-free preserve of a few square miles and it would be peopled with three pairs of humans from each major race (black, white, asian). The first generation would be raised as impersonally as possible, no language or knowledge beyond the absolute necessary for survival. When they become twelve years old they will be released into the Preserve to live and develop their own unique culture. The whole thing will be livestreamed via automated watcher drones.
I would make a giant hermetic vivarium underground and fill it with regular clovers, dragonflies and mole rats, in the hopes of them speciating into all the niches other animals have abovegroundor an hermetic vivarium with artificial evolutionary pressures, like a robot powerful laser that targets everything that moves at less than a certain speed
>>4886782I'd raise a flock of macaws and slowly make them accustomed to living in the city so they can eventually replace crows and magpies. 200 would be a good start.
>>4890109You might want to also invest in something that extends your life by a few hundred thousand years too, if you want to witness evolution.
An aquarium full of lamprey
>>4886782A massive river aquarium that spans throughout the house with a bunch of giant salamanders.
>>4890195No need for it, truly isolated enviroments will make organisms speciate very quickly if there are no illnesess to purge them out, besides I hope it lasts millenia undisturbed, I don't mind my life being shorter than that
>>4890205If you don't name one Lamarr I'll stick one on your corotid artery
>>4890112Would macaws kill the crows?
>>4886782cheetahs, red pandas and Pallas's cats
Hagfish touch tank.
>>4890555they're twice as big but I doubt a macaw is aggressive enough for thatmy bet was that they'd outcompete corvids for food with how intimidating their flocks are
